ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,542, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Method, device and computer-readable medium for mapping a three-dimensional branched tubular structure into at least one two-dimensional image plane" was invented by Oliver Taubmann (Weilersbach, Germany), Hendrik Ditt (Neustadt an der Aisch, Germany), Michael Suehling (Erlangen, Germany), Florian Thamm (Fuerth, Germany) and Leonhard Rist (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method maps a three-dimensional branched tubular structure depicted in a three-dimensional image data set into at least one two-dimensiona...